The weekend is nigh, which means it must be time to give away some Bronco swag. This week's freebie du jour is a pair of Boise State earmuffs from our friends at 180s. The black, logo-stitched earmuffs are perfect for wintry weather, cold gameday tailgates, or for tuning out Mark May on College Football Live.

Want to win these earmuffs? Of course you do. You don't hate your ears. The earmuffs can be yours if you leave a comment on this post regarding the Kellen Moore topic below. Simple as that. I won't even count spelling.

The topic: The NFL has released its combine invite list, and Kellen Moore is one of 19 quarterbacks who will appear in the meat market later this month. Your questions, if you choose to answer them: Which of the 19 quarterbacks would you be most disappointed to see drafted before Moore? How many of the 19 will find an NFL home before college football's all-time winningest one does?

The full list of QBs is after the jump.

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Kellen Moore's storied NCAA career is at an end (story illustrated by Maurice Sendak) and his NFL draft future is uncertain, so I thought we'd be remiss to not at least attempt to analyze Kellen's potential in "the league". Guys that matter (Toddy McShay, Tony Pauline, Wes Bunting) seem to (mostly) like what Kellen Moore has to offer (anticipation, accuracy, awareness) while a few hacks writers at Bleacher Report loudly proclaimed Moore to be undraftable. So which "analysts" are right about Moore? The guys paid to do this for a living, or the guys that fulfilled two of the 3 requirements to write for B/R (working keyboard, internet connection, ability to make slideshows)? And what of Kellen's NFL future? Will he be a great backup, a future starter, or a Canadian hero? I'm too emotionally invested in Kellen Moore to start this roundtable as I took each Senior Bowl jab at KM personally. What are your thoughts on the matter? First person to mention Kellen's height gets a knuckle sandwich!

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With the news that the Memphis Tigers - all five wins in three years of 'em - will join the Big East with Boise State in 2013, Bronco Nation would be excused for taking one look at the Tigers and thinking, New Mexico State? Adding an awful team to a conference of mostly average-to-good teams is not exactly a recipe for BCS automatic bids or, say, respect. To prove my point, check out what Mr. Dr. Saturday wrote upon hearing the news:

As the realignment dominoes settle into a sustainable status quo, that line is beginning to look much sharper. Now that there's nothing left worth poaching, the Big East is about to be left to its fate with the other Have-Not leagues that have never pretended they're anything but.

That laughter you hear is Karl Benson at his Shari's mobile office.

The Tigers and Broncos figure to be tied together in the west division of the Big East-ish along with the other newcomers and a disgruntled Louisville. To wit, here is what Boise State's conference schedule could look like in 2013:

• vs. San Diego State
• vs. Memphis
• vs. SMU
• vs. Houston
• vs. Louisville
• vs. UCF
• vs. Rutgers
  
• vs. Cincinnati
  

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This, according to SB Nation writer Bill Connelly:

Behold the power of six returning starters. The only team to return even as few as seven starters in 2011 was Auburn, and they dropped off the map, from national title contender to the Chick-fil-A Bowl. The effect of extreme numbers of returning starters, either good (20) or bad (six), is typically rather exponential, which does not say good things about the Broncos' 2012 season, even if 61st is almost certainly too low.

Connelly had the Broncos at No. 15 in his way-too-early Top 25, based on factors like Boise State's' legacy of success and Coach Pete's inexorable charm. His formula-driven Top 25, based on statistics and lies, had the Broncos at No. 61.

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The Super Bowl officially marks the end of live football for the next 6 months. It also reminds us that football playoffs can sometimes work—who knew? If you're a glass half-full sort of guy like myself, you could view this as the kickoff to an exciting offseason fraught with position competitions galore, combines and pro days. If you're a glass half-empty sort, you're reading this from the fetal position while watching replays of Ahmad Bradshaw's squat-pirouette-TD from last night.

After the jump, I'll give you some tips on how to stay sane in the football-barren wasteland known as the offseason

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Freebie Friday is back this week with an old school giveaway: A super fly Liberty Bowl t-shirt (people said "super fly" back in 2004, right?). This t-shirt relic screams, "I have been a Bronco fan for a very long time and know more about BSU than you!" and has that certain ironic hipster charm to it. And it can be yours for the low, low price of free.

How to win it: Super Bowl prop bets. Leave a comment with your prediction for either of the following prop bets:

• Who gets more rushing yards: Tom Brady or Eli Manning?
• How long will Kelly Clarkson's national anthem be: over/under 1 minute, 34 seconds?

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The 2012 Boise State recruiting class was a good one, but how good it is might not be known until many years later, nless someone had a way of seeing into the speculative future. Hey, wait. I have a blog. I can speculate about future things all I want.

Here now is a look into the future and what the 2012 recruiting class might be up to in 2015.

Senior quarterback and four-year starter Nick Patti is threatening the career passing yardage mark at Boise State. Washington Redskins Pro Bowl quarterback Kellen Moore sends a congratulatory text.

Jack Fields plays D.J. Harper to Jay Ajayi's Doug Martin.

Demarcus Lawrence is in the NFL, making life miserable on grizzled veteran quarterbacks like Tim Tebow.

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The competition to become Boise State's new quarterback will be long and hard and full of speculation that is completely blown out of proportion by bloggers like me. Speaking of which, here's some now!

As Boise State's new offensive coordinator, Robert Prince would know a thing or two about who would start a hypothetical game against a hypothetical opponent in college football's hypothetical Week Absolute Zero. But is the Southwick theoretical start based more on merit or seniority?

It's impossible to tell since I do not have Robert Prince on speed dial nor would he care to answer my calls, texts, or Facebook pokes if I did. My best guess as to the predictive value of Prince's statement is that some reporter bothered him into giving some answer / any answer about the question that will be asked a billion times more between now and August 31 and Prince obliged to get everyone off his back. So, no real predictive value, I'd say.

(Half of Bronco Nation just breathed a sigh of relief, one quarter of Bronco Nation vehemently disagrees, and another quarter of Bronco Nation is pretty sure Southwick will have a hard time beating out Kellen Moore in the fall.)

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